married to melda

[nedwalk]

so it,s time to break out me spare pair, cause the old ones are buggered, into the walk in where i keep them, i look down, yep there they are, right beside me bike ones and me winter ones, then i happen to glance across to 'her' side..bugger me there's enough bloody shoes there to shode a primary school, got me thinking, i own 2 pairs of thongs, me jesus boots and afforementioned foot wear.. just how many bloody shoes do women need? more so how are you blokes doing in the boots to shelia's footwear ratio,, or have ya even looked?

[FlyFree]

'tis not wise to attack a woman's shoes.

[baldrick]

i own 2 pairs of thongs,

posh cnut

I have a pair of steelcap workboots ( bluesteel ) , a pair of sandshoes ( ecco ) , a pair of shiny black shoes and a pair of thongs.

[smeden]

build a walk in shack for her shoes

[Nawty]

I have 4 pairs of sandals and no socks.

[Begbie]

i own 2 pairs of thongs,

and a pair of thongs.

Poofter's underpants. You guys live in Sydney don't you.

[baldrick]

Poofter's underpants.

it amazes me people wear thongs in that way - much easier to put them on your feet

but foriegners seem to have many different ruituals that are strange to me - for example , kiwis shagging sheep and poms going to bangkok to get shagged up the arse by famous KT 'Pat'

[mooncake]

just how many bloody shoes do women need? more so how are you blokes doing in the boots to shelia's footwear ratio,, or have ya even looked?

We prefer to call it ..."the gathering instinct"...jaa


Hmm…I don’t think U r qualified to criticize our “gathering instinct”, uncle NED
if this's YOU....

[DrAndy]

I do not have a shoe fetish, I really don't, not at all

[Thai Pom]

My missus took more pairs of shoes with her on Holiday than I own. And then she bought some more...

[crippen]

The world's best-known shoe collector, former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos, has opened a museum in which most of the exhibits are her own footwear.

Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty



The Marikina City Footwear Museum in Manila contains hundreds of pairs of shoes, many of them found in the presidential palace when Imelda and her husband, President Ferdinand Marcos, fled the Philippines in 1986.


An emotional moment for Mrs Marcos
"This museum is making a subject of notoriety into an object of beauty," Mrs Marcos told reporters.

The museum management hopes it will help attract tourism to Marikina, a district known as the shoe capital of the Philippines.

"They went into my closets looking for skeletons, but thank God, all they found were shoes, beautiful shoes," a smiling Mrs Marcos said, wearing a pair of locally made silver shoes for the day.

"More than anything, this museum will symbolise the spirit and culture of the Filipino people.

"Filipinos don't wallow in what is miserable and ugly. They recycle the bad into things of beauty," she said.

Symbol of extravagance

The exhibits include shoes made by such world-famous names as Ferragamo, Givenchy, Chanel and Christian Dior, all size eight-and-a-half.

There are also shoes belonging to former President Fidel Ramos and other well-known figures.


The espadrilles she wore when she fled the presidential palace
During her time as first lady, Mrs Marcos was famed for travelling the world to buy new shoes at a time when millions of Filipinos were living in extreme poverty.

President Marcos' successor, Corazon Aquino, ordered many of Mrs Marcos' shoes to be put on display as a demonstration of her extravagance.

While Ferdinand Marcos died in exile, never seeing his country again after his fall from grace in a popular uprising, his widow has reintegrated herself into Philippines life.

She has twice run for president and analysts say she may run for mayor of Manila next May.

Last December Mrs Marcos underwent surgery to remove a blood clot close to her brain, which doctors say could have killed her.

Some 200,000 people work in the Marikina district making shoes, with roads carrying names such as Sandal Street and Slipper Street.

BBC News | ASIA-PACIFIC | Homage to Imelda's shoes

[DrAndy]

sorry, what was the point of the above post? everyone knows about Imelda

[nedwalk]

posh cnut

nah mate, ones for yard duties and the other for going out, you know flash joints that have dress regs and stuff

[Fabian]

I prefer to not know how much shoes 'er inddors own. It keeps my blood pressure low.

[DrAndy]

does she have a special cupboard for them, or a room?

[Fabian]

Cupboard.

[Muadib]

You're supposed to keep her barefoot and pregnant... What, you didn't get the memo...

[Rigger]

the shoes are bad enough but my wife has a thing for hand bags. she has cubboards full of them. as for shoes i have me work thongs and me dress thongs and a pair of boots for each bike

[Jet Gorgon]

What a sexist thread!
Never buy those ubiquitous blue and while flipflops, because if you go to an indoor party, you'll never get yours back when you go outside to collect them.
...
I used to have only one pair of Thai flips, but then I went to Singapore. The sweetest strappy sandals there.

[DrAndy]

What a sexist thread!

The sweetest strappy sandals there

agreed

[baldrick]

ones for yard duties and the other for going out,

i have me work thongs and me dress thongs

fcuking trendsetters - I'll have to look for some new ones to wear out in the big smoke now I hear it is what all the flash harrys do.

[Kiwi_Refugee]

I have millions of dam shoes... And the more of my crap I unpack the more shoes I find!!!

[English Noodles]

In Bangkok I have probably in the region of 25 pairs of shoes, the girlfriend has about the same.

[jizzybloke]

I've got about 30 pairs of trainers 3 pairs of good going out shoes (not been worn for a while ) a couple of pairs of flip flops couple of pairs of work boots and 1 pair of Birkenstoks.
There is also a pair of Timberlands and some wierd things i bought that i keep tripping over on my landing

[Propagator]

^do a lot of running then Jizzy?